Edward de Bono Quotes

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

... common sense is very rare.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.